Obama’s mastery of political jiu jitsu
Mon Oct 13 2008 9:30 am
by Bob Morris.
Andrew Sullivan in the Sunday Times explains how Obama uses rope-a-dope tactics brilliantly, first against Hillary Clinton, now against McCain.
Beep, beep: Road Runner lets McCain blow up
Barack Obama’s strategy of calm is provoking his rival into fatal errors
They become enraged, attack Obama and then, like the coyote, go flying off the cliff.
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To be technical, “rope-a-dope” and jiu-jitsu are quite different.
Wikipedia
“In competitive situations other than boxing, rope-a-dope is used to describe strategies in which one party purposely puts itself in what appears to be a losing position, attempting thereby to become the eventual victor.”
So, maybe it’s a combination. First the rope-a-dope, then the jiu-jitsu of using the opponent’s force against them so they go sailing off the cliff?